Hockey cards inspired by Shark Week!

It’s Shark Week — the time when everyone puts aside their differences and agrees on one thing: sharks are awesome! To celebrate, I’ve combed through my collection and found five hockey cards that any shark-lover would appreciate.

1992-93 Pinnacle #266 (Masks subset) – Bryan Hayward – Although he appeared in only 25 games with the team, Brian Hayward hands-down had the coolest mask in San Jose Sharks history.

When Hayward wore his mask, he looked like some poor schlub getting swallowed by a shark. He must have felt like one too, posting 4.92 and 5.55 goals-allowed averages and a 3-18-1 record, in his two seasons in the Bay.

1996-97 Kraft JELL-O Marty McSorley & S.J. Sharkie – One is a menacing, cold-blooded predator…and the other one is a shark!

1991-92 Score Canadian #304 – Shark Attack! – Few things could be more shark-tacular than the San Jose Sharks logo superimposed above a coral reef and surrounded by a blood-red border. But the back of the card lists the players who were selected by the San Jose Sharks in the 1991 Expansion Draft.

You could say these players were…thrown to the Sharks.

YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Moving along…

1991-92 Sports Art Images Promos #21 – Pat Falloon – This unlicensed card has an illustration of Pat Falloon and a great white shark. Falloon scored 143 goals and 179 assists in a mediocre, 9-year NHL career. However, the great white seen here ate an impressive 21,927 seals, 6,651 tunas and one underwater camera owned by the Discovery Channel in his 68-year career as a shark.